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TIL John Tunstall who was portrayed as a older gentleman in the movie Young Guns was only 24 when he died in the Lincoln County War.

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jNlZp TIL Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard was placed in command of of a Navy Ship during WW2. He wound up being engaged in combat with absolutely nothing for 68 hours and accidentally conducted live fire exercises on a Mexican Island, which led to him being fired.
R74W4 TIL a six-year-old named Elaine Esposito went to the hospital for a routine appendectomy. She went under general anesthetic and never came out. Dubbed "The Sleeping Beauty" Esposito stayed in a coma for 37 years and 111 days before succumbing in 1978. The longest-ever coma.
4XPQb TIL that in 1987 a group in Mumbai, India pretending to be CBI officers (Indian FBI) advertised and conducted interviews claiming to be hiring "Intelligence and Security Officers". 26 people were hired, and then they were used to "raid" (rob) a jewelry store. The group was never caught.
v41R TIL Martin Scorsese is banned from ever entering China, after making a pro-Dalai Lama movie in 1997
eBgD TIL that the president’s feces & urine are Classified Top Secret, and that it is flown back to the United States for disposal when visiting other countries.